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It all starts with a slogan posted to the "KJV vs. Modern Versions" club by Jim Ward, in Post #650:

Without the backing of Scripture,the whole theory of mvism is dead.

Upon which Kristi turned the tables, in post #651:

Without the backing of Scripture, the whole theory of KJOism is dead.

To which I simply pointed out, in post #652:

Oh dear, Warrior's been hoist on his own petard! So by his own argument, KJV-onlyism can't be true either.

So imagine my surprise when robycop reports (see post #653):

Hard to believe,Xenu,but I received an e-mail accusing you of using wirty dords in yer post. . . .

Dirty words? Huh?

Leave it to the culturally clueless KJV-onlyists to miss a famous line from the most famous play in the world. Shakespeare coined it in Hamlet:

There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet. (III.iv.219-27)

A "petard" is a kind of medieval bomb consisting of gunpowder and a very short fuse, used to blow open doors. There was a danger that the person setting the charge, the engineer, might be blown up by his own bomb, i.e. "hoist with his own petard." In context, Hamlet is speaking of his pending trip to England with his schoolmates Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He knows that they have instructions to have him killed when they arrive, and he intends to turn the tables on them - which he does by forging new orders to have them executed, sealing them with his dead father's signet, and switching them for the originals (V.ii.52-59).

Do the Philistines recognize the allusion - not that it is obscure? No, so they apparently come after me for uttering dirty words (it is true that the source of the word "petard" is the French verb peter, to break wind, but that is not the context in which Shakespeare uses the term at all). In fact, they don't even come after me - they inexplicably send an email to robycop.

You gotta laugh.